Targeted poverty-reducing benefits for people living in the highlands of Georgia, as well as incentives for businesses and budget support to economic and social development are envisioned in a newly...

In the scope of the international summit on climate change in Paris, France, in December 2015 (referred to as COP21), a group of mountaineers launched 'Summit(s) for climate', a set...

Civil society organizations including members of the Mountain Partnership have a chance to be seen or heard at the 21st session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations...

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) has launched a funding database to assist members in their resource mobilization efforts. The online tool will help identify resource partners and different funding sources...

Las montañas cubren 22% de la superficie terrestre, proporcionan entre 60-80% del agua dulce y son el hogar del 14% de la población mundial. Al mismo tiempo, son las regiones...

Globally, disasters are on the increase, impacting communities and nations with grave social and economic consequences and threatening the survival, dignity and livelihoods of the vulnerable sections of their populations....

Your case studies are invited for the posters and factsheets currently being created by the FAO and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat for International Mountain Day, which will take place on...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) was presented a ‘Humanitarian GIS Award’ at the 2015 International User Conference of the Environmental System Research Institute (Esri) in San Diego,...

In Central Italy, the project called ‘Menu of the Sibillini' was inaugurated on 15 July 2015.  The Monti Sibillini National Park challenged local restaurants to create a dish (traditional or...

The National Mountain Museum of Turin and the Alpine Museum – Museum of France, Chamonix signed a cooperation agreement on 11 July 2015  to launch a digital platform for mountain...

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU), ranked third highest in the UK for the employability of its graduates, is still accepting applications for its two MSc degrees: Sustainable Agriculture and Food...

The global Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in Mountains Programme is a partnership among United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for Conservation of...

Twenty-four participants from 22 countries on three continents took part in the eighth edition of  the International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO) from...

RCE Srinagar in collaboration with CEE Himalaya & JSW Foundation supported by UNICEF celebrated World Environment Day (WED) 2015 across Indian Himalayan Region and the foothills of Himalaya in Uttar...

The Mountain Research Institute (MRI) is organizing an international photography competition to coincide with the international conference “Perth III: Mountains of our Future Earth" to be held in Perth, Scotland, on...

On June 2015, Fundación Cordillera Tropical (FCT) won the 2015 National Energy Globe Award for Ecuador in recognition of its commitment to creating sustainable livelihoods in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. Energy Globe, the...

How can research and university studies be linked to sustainable development and job creation in the mountain areas of Italy? A seminar to discuss this issue was hosted in Rome...

The relationship between migration and environmental and climatic changes is a crucial yet understudied factor influencing mountain livelihoods in the global South, states a recently published research article entitled ‘Migration...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) continued to support, coordinate and rally the broad regional and international teams in the ongoing post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts of the Government of Nepal..

How to promote mountain products and the benefits they can bring to mountain communities were among the topics discussed in an international conference in Bucharest in May.The conference "The quality...